Eastward propagating planetary waves with periods of 1-5 days in the winter Antarctic stratosphere as revealed by MERRA and lidar

Physics & Astronomy

• Antarctic regions 17%
• baroclinic instability 19%
• divergence 10%
• evanescent waves 14%
• gradients 7%
• heat flux 21%
• momentum 8%
• night 13%
• optical radar 78%
• perturbation 24%
• planetary waves 78%
• polar regions 13%
• poles 10%
• refractivity 8%
• stratosphere 100%
• temperature 17%
• tides 16%
• tropical regions 15%
• winter 93%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• analysis 19%
• Antarctica 9%
• baroclinic instability 13%
• barotropic instability 15%
• divergence 9%
• heat flux 19%
• lidar 70%
• momentum 8%
• perturbation 24%
• planetary wave 89%
• refractive index 11%
• stratosphere 69%
• temperature 19%
• tide 8%
• winter 44%